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07-31-2006, 06:11 PM
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How 'bout Rick Danko from The Band? His style is instantly recognizable and he was among the first to use a fretless, I believe. Great groove- tons of sliding/greeze-ay playing. He's an amazing singer, as well.
I second Ken Gradney (Little Feat)
Max Bennett, Gary King, and Wilton Felder are studio cats that you don't hear much about. Check out some mid/late 70s Joni Mitchell albums for Max and Wilton's great tasty playing.
Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) is one-of-a-kind. His Alembic and Dark-Starred Guilds are simply *the* rock tone- huge and thunderous. Anthony Jackson cites him as a huge influence.
MIKE WATT! (fIREHOSE, Minutemen) - Maybe not underated, but I don't see his name that much here. |
07-31-2006, 06:18 PM
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08-01-2006, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Murphbass How 'bout Rick Danko from The Band? His style is instantly recognizable and he was among the first to use a fretless, I believe. Great groove- tons of sliding/greeze-ay playing. He's an amazing singer, as well.
I second Ken Gradney (Little Feat)
Max Bennett, Gary King, and Wilton Felder are studio cats that you don't hear much about. Check out some mid/late 70s Joni Mitchell albums for Max and Wilton's great tasty playing.
Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) is one-of-a-kind. His Alembic and Dark-Starred Guilds are simply *the* rock tone- huge and thunderous. Anthony Jackson cites him as a huge influence.
MIKE WATT! (fIREHOSE, Minutemen) - Maybe not underated, but I don't see his name that much here. | I beg to differ. Mike has his own forum here. Scroll down
the bass forum till you come to 'Ask Mike Watt'.
Casady, agreed.
Joni always had the best people, Jaco recorded and toured
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Originally Posted by Murphbass Oh, and Ron Wood, while famous for playing guitar with the Rolling Stones, is actually a great rock bass player. Check out the early Jeff Beck recordings. | That would be Truth and Beck-ola. The cuts 'Let Me Love
You Baby' and 'Shapes of Things' on Truth particularly stand as
a testament to what a fine player Ron was when he was playing bass.
Great artist as well. Very creative guy. 
Edit:
Time to drag out the pic Fred Hammon gave me of Casady with the Alembic modded Guild with the Hagstrom pups.
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Originally Posted by ScottE The only reason I say this guy is underrated is because I never see anybody talking about him. I just started listening to this group after having lost interest in them a few years ago. But now I'm totally into them again. The player: Dean Dinning. The band: Toad the Wet Sprocket. I don't know why nobody talks about him, he's fantastic! Listening to a Toad album is like a seminar on rock bass. He does everything right. Are there no Toad fans out there? What's up? |
Some of his fretless work is pretty sweet.
Also, a cat who doesn't get a lot of notice is Scott Bannevich from Edwin McCain. Some really cool lines on the first record.
It seems a lot of cool guys from the early 90's seem to get over looked for some reason.
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08-01-2006, 10:53 AM
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Tom Hamilton - Great solid playera ,saw him recently with a Sadowsky Monern 24 .
Sabo Romo - Band called Caifanes (Mexico) , great sound and unique style
Frank Bello - One of the few Metal players to play with his fingers
Robert Trujillo - Not the Metallica Trujillo (Can't wait to hear him playing bass on a Metallica studio album)the Infectious Grooves Trujillo
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08-01-2006, 07:38 PM
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Hub ( The Roots)
Pino Palladino
Jimi Hendrix - His work on electric ladyland is great and he wrote pretty much all of the basslines you hear on his albums.
NAthan WAtts (Stevie Wonder)
Doug Lubahn -PLayed bass on most of the doors' stuff was asked to join the group many times.
Guy Pratt - I saw him playing on teh new Floyd DVD and was blown away.
Paul Jackson from Herbie Hancock's HeadHunters
Buster Williams acoustic/electric bassist who played on Fat Albert Rotunda with Herbie Hancock. |
08-01-2006, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by gweimer Tony746, any idea if Mario Cippolina is any relationship to former QMS guitarist John Cippolina?
There are probably tons of bassists that could be named; I always hit on my faves, Martin Turner and Gary Thain, but you could include people that have turned up in David Bowie's band, Kasim Sultan (sp?, but from Utopia and now Meatloaf), Hunt Sales (or is it Tony?), Rick Grech, Joey Dimaeo (sp?), Gerry McAvoy, Chris Glen, and on and on. |
In case no one ever answered your query the answer would be YES, Mario is/was John's brother. |
08-01-2006, 08:32 PM
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08-02-2006, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Siff I still don't think Mike Watt gets his props.
I think this guy is deserving of the best compliment you could ever give to a bass player, which is: without his bass lines, the songs would completely fall apart.
Recommended listening: Minutemen, "Double Nickels on the Dime"; fIREHOSE, "Ragin', Full On," "If'n," and "Flyin' the Flannel"; and his second solo album "Contemplating the Engine Room."
This guy is a true master. | Props on this. His tone in the Firehose album If'n is one of my faves on record. And he absolutley cracks me up on the Rising Low DVD with the "wrestlin' moves thing...
Every time I see a thread like this, I always have to mention Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads. By no means is she world class technically, but so many of their songs depend on her basslines, and they are so funky for amount of notes she plays. |
08-02-2006, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by gweimer Tony746, any idea if Mario Cippolina is any relationship to former QMS guitarist John Cippolina?
There are probably tons of bassists that could be named; I always hit on my faves, Martin Turner and Gary Thain, but you could include people that have turned up in David Bowie's band, Kasim Sultan (sp?, but from Utopia and now Meatloaf), Hunt Sales (or is it Tony?), Rick Grech, Joey Dimaeo (sp?), Gerry McAvoy, Chris Glen, and on and on. |
Since you're mentioning these guys that played with Todd Rundgren, don't leave out my favorite - John Siegler. He played a fretless P and kicked major ass. Listen to the track for Just One Victory... |
08-03-2006, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by gribuski Props on this. His tone in the Firehose album If'n is one of my faves on record. And he absolutley cracks me up on the Rising Low DVD with the "wrestlin' moves thing...
Every time I see a thread like this, I always have to mention Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads. By no means is she world class technically, but so many of their songs depend on her basslines, and they are so funky for amount of notes she plays. | I read an interview with Tina a few years back. She basically
admitted that she knew nothing on bass when she joined the band
and that David Byrne trained her on what to play, note for
note. I think her quote was 'I let him mold me.'
You're right, technically she is nothing special, but she
plays the right stuff for the songs he wrote. Hard not to
since he wrote the basslines as well.
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